2016 Manly Wade Wellman Award cover gallery

As I’m gearing up to podcast descriptions of all of these books for Carolina Book Beat in the morning, and as nominations have been open a while, here’s a cover gallery of this year’s Manly Wade Wellman Award final eligibility list of 115 titles, alpha by author:

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F-K

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I included Goodreads links for every title for which I could find a listing. Nominations will remain open until Monday, May 13, followed by a final voting round to begin in June. The award will be presented at ConGregate in July. To register to place a nominating ballot, please submit a voter registration form.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 7:00pm -- Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts John Darnielle for the paperback release of his latest novel Universal Harvester. "Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut."

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 7:00pm -- Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books hosts John Kessel for his new novel Pride and Prometheus. "Pride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein in this NCSU English professor’s literary mash-up of the classics as Mary Bennet falls for Victor Frankenstein and befriends his monstrous creature."